Abraham Ten Broeck

Abraham Ten Broeck (13 May 1734-19 January 1810) was Mayor of Albany, New York from 1779 to 1783 and from 1796 to 1798, and a Brigadier-General of the New York militia during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Abraham Ten Broeck was born on 13 May 1734 in Albany, New York to a powerful Dutch family; both of his great-grandfathers had been mayors of Albany, as was his father Dirck Ten Broeck. After his father's death in 1751, Ten Broeck headed to Europe to learn international business, returning to Albany a year later and becoming a merchant. He would join the militia during the French and Indian War in the 1750s, and in 1759 he was elected to the city council of Albany; in 1760, he was elected to the New York Provincial Assembly and become one of the wealthiest men in Albany by the mid-1760s. In 1775, he became the colonel of the Albany County militia at the start of the American Revolutionary War. Ten Broeck was promoted to Brigadier-General on 25 June 1778, and he resigned on 26 March 1781. He would serve two terms as Mayor of Albany, serving as an elector of the Federalist Party in 1796 and voting for John Adams and Thomas Pinckney in the election.